One year follow-up of lung clearance of (99m)Tc-diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid and disease activity in sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 281-287

  Bradvik, I ^a   Wollmer, P ^a   Evander, E ^a   Sloth, M ^a   Larusdottir, H ^a   Blom Bulow, B ^a   Jonson, B ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Radionuclide imaging; Sarcoidosis; Technetium 99m pentetate

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STEROIDS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE;

EID: 0033779663     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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